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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2015
    Myanmar

    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
    "Myanmar’s agricultural sector has for long suffered due to multiplicity of laws and regulations, deficient and degraded infrastructure, poor policies and planning, a chronic lack of credit, and an absence of tenure security for cultivators. These woes negate Myanmar’s bountiful natural endowments and immense agricultural potential, pushing its rural populace towards dire poverty.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 2016
    Myanmar

    ... Myanmar’s forest and timber sector has been central to the country’s economy and society, particularly over the last century. Since the colonial era, timber has been a major export revenue earner to Burma/Myanmar and thus subject to much political debate (Bryant 1996). In addition to timber export revenues, the forests of Myanmar have always provided timber and non-timber forest products for domestic consumption as well as a range of environmental services including water catchment, habitat for flora and fauna, carbon storage, and soil nutrient recovery in rotational agriculture.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Myanmar

    Under support from the DFID PyoePin programme, Dr Kyaw Tint, the head of ECCDI, a leading Yangon based NGO led a research project to understand the current status of Community Forestry in the country, with technical support from Dr. Oliver Springate-Baginski. Field study was conducted in October – December 2010, and we presented our findings at a national workshop.

    The three main outputs of the project are available to download here:

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2013
    Myanmar

    ... This document reports on a study carried out to assess the value of the forest sector to Myanmar's economy, in order to justify and identify niches for developing forest-based payments for ecosystem services (PES) and other mechanisms that can be used to generate financing for forest conservation.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2011
    Myanmar

    INTRODUCTION:
    "Myanmar’s Community Forestry programme began in with the Community Forestry Instruction of 1995. Since then over two hundred and fifty Forest User Groups have been formed across the country, and have taken responsibility for controlling, managing and sustainably using a wide range of forest. How have they faired?

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2011
    Myanmar

    Policy Briefing Paper..."Since Myanmar’s 1995 Community Forestry Instruction, forests have gradually been handed over to community management across the country. How are Forest User Groups performing? Are the Community Forests improving in condition? And are there improved livelihood benefits? This paper summarises findings of an assessment of 16 randomly selected Forest User Groups across 4 key regions.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2007
    Myanmar

    Table of Contents: Mangrove Deforestation, Shrimp Farming, and the Survival of the Coastal...
    Land Confiscation in Burma: Whose land is it?...
    Shwe Gas Pro ect and the Impact on Arakan State...

    A Brief History of Rice Agriculture and Chemical Fertilizer Use in Arakan State

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2012
    Myanmar

    Analysis of the social costs of large-scale Chinese-supported rubber farms in northern Burma suggests that the future for ordinary citizens will be affected as much by the country's chosen economic path as the political reforms underway.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2016
    Myanmar

    This study emerged out of an identified need to document social
    processes leading to land insecurity, and those leading to investment
    and sustainable use of lands by rural populations. Focusing on the
    Delta and Dry Zone, the main paddy producing regions of Myanmar,
    this analysis unravels the powers at play in shaping rural households’
    relationship to land. From British colonization to the 2012 reforms,
    many issues have remained relatively unchanged with regards to
    local dynamics of landlessness, exclusion processes, local power plays,

  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2014
    Myanmar

    The scale of attacks against land rights defenders is particularly preoccupying and should attract our utmost reaction and urgent mobilisation.
    The toll they pay, together with their families and communities, is dramatic,
    be it killings, forced disappearances, harassment or criminalisation. Caught
    in the crossfire between poor land users fighting for the respect of their basic
    human rights and powerful economic actors fighting for juicy profits, they
    account as one of the most vulnerable categories of human rights defenders.

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